In 1980, Mitzi Holt Sizemore was only a teenager when Randy May, a 22 year-old pretending to be a police officer, picked up her and her friend Mary Jones.
"He thought I was pretty," said Sizemore.
He brought the two girls into the woods of Hamblen county.
"His face is what I remember. It was right there at me," said Sizemore.
Sizemore tried to fight back, but May had a knife.
"A fifteen year-old skinny girl against a grown man like that, I done the best I could," Sizemore said.
She nearly died.
"He slashed my throat, stabbed me three times in the chest and left me for dead. That is a monster if there ain't ever was one," she recalled.
May raped and killed her friend Mary Jones. Jones was only 16.
Hamblen County Sheriff Esco Jarnigan was called to the scene as a forensic investigator for the Morristown Police Department.
"I just can't shake that case," he said. "Every time I see a little red head girl, I think about Mary Jones."
In August, May is up for parole again. Sizemore does not want him to get out.
"What so he can savage some more? Brutally rape and murder some more young girls?"
Friends and family of the two women are protesting. They hope to get the word out and keep May behind bars.
Sizemore said he's still dangerous.
"He's a demon monster and that's always what he'll be," said Sizemore.
And it's already hard enough for her to sleep as it is.
"I wake up in the middle of the night, fighting him. Because me and him fought. I fought him with all I had in me," she said. "It's took a big toll on me. It really has."
Jarnigan is among those who have written letters to the parole board.
"It's not about rehabilitation," he said. "It's about him paying for that terrible, horrific. The worst crime that I has investigated since I been in law enforcement."
But Sizemore is preparing, one again, to plead to keep the man who attacked her and her friend behind bars.
"I look at her picture every day and I promise her 'Mary honey, I'll do everything I can to keep him in there."